Bauru

Name: Bauru
Author: Pier Paolo

Bauru brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Pier Paolo80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Bauru, including combinations with Ribes Black, Navine and Arual.

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Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

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Bauru Editorial Specimen

Bauru in Editorial Context

Bauru is a serif typeface by Pier Paolo suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Pier Paolo

Typeface Designer • Serif

Bauru demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Bauru supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Pier Paolo, Bauru balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Bauru Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Bauru Specimen

Bauru

Bauru is a serif typeface by Pier Paolo built for display contexts.

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Bauru

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Bauru— serif typeface

BauruBy Pier Paolo

BauruTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Bauru Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Bauru

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Bauru, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Bauru demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Bauru for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Bauru small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Bauru delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Bauru italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Bauru bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Bauru typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Bauru typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Bauru'; }

Quick Start

Using Bauru in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Bauru:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Bauru:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Bauru';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bauru:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Bauru

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Bauru', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Bauru', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'bauru': ['Bauru', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-bauru">Your text here</p>

About

Bauru Background & Features

Pier Paolo

Serif

Open Source

Bauru font is a condensed elegant serif by Pier Paolo designed for sophisticated fashion and luxury display applications. This fancy typeface combines narrow proportions with refined details, creating distinctive headlines for editorial fashion content and premium brand identities. Bauru suits magazine mastheads, beauty advertising, and luxury packaging where vertical elegance maximizes impact in constrained spaces. The condensed proportions enable dramatic headlines while maintaining the sophistication required for high-end positioning. Designers seeking alternatives to condensed didones with distinctive personality will appreciate Bauru's refined approach. Works beautifully alongside wider sans-serifs for contrasting editorial hierarchy.

Bauru was designed by Pier Paolo. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Bauru features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents.

Bauru is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Bauru

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Bauru's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Bauru within the Classicals (Humanist, Garalde, Transitional) and Moderns (Didone) tradition, characterized by Bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and Modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. Serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Key technical strength: extensive weight and optical-size ranges in superfamilies.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Bauru performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Pier Paolo. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Bauru

Bauru falls within the Classicals typeface, drawn from the tradition where serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Its distinctive bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it well-suited for print-first layouts with sustained reading. TypeSmith indexes Bauru in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

5 curated pairings for Bauru

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Bauru based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Bauru Accessibility Profile

Bauru achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. High-contrast Didones can cause halation for readers with astigmatism. Prefer Garalde or Transitional cuts at text sizes for inclusive readability.

Bauru's Legibility

Bauru draws legibility from its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Bauru?

Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print. On screen, hinting quality determines legibility below 14 px. Set body text at 16 px or larger on screen, with line heights between 1.4 and 1.6 for sustained reading comfort.

Visual Comfort with Bauru

Bauru provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Bauru Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Bauru. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Bauru at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Bauru Usage Guidelines

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Bauru. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Bauru in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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800

900

Internationalization

Bauru Language Coverage

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 230 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Bauru is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Bauru ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'bauru': ['Bauru', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-bauru">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Bauru

Best Font Pairings for Bauru

Test Bauru Font Pairings Live

In Context

Bauru Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Bauru

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Bauru Accessibility Profile

Bauru's Legibility

How Readable is Bauru?

Visual Comfort with Bauru

Bauru Accessibility Recommendations

Bauru Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Bauru

Best Ways to Use Bauru

Best Font Pairings for Bauru

Test Bauru Font Pairings Live

In Context

Bauru Typography

Bauru

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Bauru

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Bauru Accessibility Profile

Bauru's Legibility

How Readable is Bauru?

Visual Comfort with Bauru

Bauru Accessibility Recommendations

Bauru Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference